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Salvation is free and for everyone. It refers to not being extinct after death. This phenomena from the eternal dimension can be experienced in the temporal plane through faith in the finished work of Christ at Calvary. In terms of “salvation” everything else is, relatively speaking, theological scenery.
This sounds good. But in actuallity it could be just you saying - "Tell me the barest minimum and get out of my hair so I can go on and live they way I want."
You posture here to only want to know the essentials to salvation. But what is really beneath the surface is a desire to discard many things (I said many) that God has revealed for important reasons to His work.
Maybe you should just be honest. You don't give a damn about what God wants. Just as long as your skin is "saved" with the minimum disruption to opinions you have about many other things.
"Give me my ticket and get out of my hair."
Everything interfering with your view of anything is "theological scenery" non-essential to the minimum basic safty of your own skin.
Maybe you should reduce your Bible to two passages.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
His mercy endures forever.
The End." - Divegeester's New Essentials Only Translation.
-Removed-Jeez divegeester, that's not even what I said.
Listen! A priori, God's Word is the final authority.
That's what I've been trying to tell you for heaven's sake!
Why can't you see that?!
To hell with my opinions and interpretations. It's about what the scriptures say. They are the final authority.
Now, are you going to understand what I mean or not?
@josephw saidIn Gods Word there is a stronger case for all people eventually entering the Kingdom of God than it is for A Christians only Kingdom and all other people go to hell for eternity.
Jeez divegeester, that's not even what I said.
Listen! A priori, God's Word is the final authority.
That's what I've been trying to tell you for heaven's sake!
Why can't you see that?!
To hell with my opinions and interpretations. It's about what the scriptures say. They are the final authority.
Now, are you going to understand what I mean or not?
@josephw
To whom it may concern: do not link my words and what I say with whatever anyone else says. I stand alone with the Word of God within the context of this particular discussion with whom it is I'm conversing with.
I'm not part of anybody's clique. Except Jesus'.
@fmf saidRight! Most of the time, it seems, people's opinions and interpretations "differ" from the plain teachings of scripture.
The whole point is that opinions and interpretations about what the scriptures say differ.
That's the problem. That individual's of any particular branch of systematic theology of opinions and interpretations of scripture differ from each other, and from the text of scripture.
Let the Word speak for itself.